slicing up eyeballs // 80s alternative music, college rock, indie

 
 
  • Facebook Icon
  • Twitter Icon
  • RSS Icon
  • New Releases
  • Tour Dates
  • Vintage Video
  • Mixtape
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Merch
  •  

Home / Milestones

  • Video: Depeche Mode, ‘A Concert for the Masses’ — rare footage from 1988’s ‘101’ concert

    Video: Depeche Mode, ‘A Concert for the Masses’ — rare footage from 1988’s ‘101’ concert

    • 17 June 2013
    • Classic Slicing Up Eyeballs, Milestones, Video
    • 18 comments

    Tuesday marks the 25th anniversary of Depeche Mode’s iconic “Concert For the Masses,” a daylong show at the 100,000-seat Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., that also featured performances by Wire, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Thomas Dolby — and was, of course, filmed and recorded for ‘101.’

    continue reading »

     
     
  • Milestones: U2 played historic Red Rocks gig 30 years ago today — watch ‘I Will Follow’

    Milestones: U2 played historic Red Rocks gig 30 years ago today — watch ‘I Will Follow’

    • 5 June 2013
    • Milestones, Video
    • 3 comments

    Thirty years ago tonight, U2 braved a cold Colorado rainstorm to perform at the fabled Red Rocks Amphitheatre just west of Denver, a concert on the band’s War tour that was filmed and released on video as “Under a Blood Red Sky,” cementing Bono and Co.’s reputation as live act.

    continue reading »

     
     
  • R.E.M.’s ‘Murmur’ turns 30 today — hear a dozen demos of tracks off classic album

    R.E.M.’s ‘Murmur’ turns 30 today — hear a dozen demos of tracks off classic album

    • 12 April 2013
    • Digital Music, Milestones
    • 9 comments

    It’s a nearly unparalleled landmark in the history of ’80s college rock: R.E.M.’s peerless debut album, Murmur, was released on April 12, 1983 — exactly 30 years ago today. Today we celebrate this milestone by looking back at the building blocks of the album we know and love.

    continue reading »

     
     
  • Pixies’ ‘Surfer Rosa’ turns 25 today — so let’s watch the band’s full ’89 Glastonbury set

    Pixies’ ‘Surfer Rosa’ turns 25 today — so let’s watch the band’s full ’89 Glastonbury set

    • 21 March 2013
    • Anniversary, Milestones, Video
    • 3 comments

    Today marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the Pixies’ landmark Surfer Rosa, which, if we’re to count Come On Pilgrim as an EP or “mini-LP,” was the band’s true debut album, featuring the instant classics “Bone Machine,” “Gigantic” and “Where Is My Mind?”

    continue reading »

     
     
  • New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ turns 30 today — an audiovisual retrospective, 1983-2013

    New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ turns 30 today — an audiovisual retrospective, 1983-2013

    • 7 March 2013
    • Anniversary, Milestones, Video
    • 10 comments

    On March 7, 1983 — exactly 30 years ago today — New Order released its monumental single “Blue Monday,” cementing its full transition from the moody post-punk of Joy Division to club-ready synthpop. And, in the process, the band delivered the best-selling 12-inch single of all time.

    continue reading »

     
     
  • Milestones: R.E.M. played sole ‘Automatic For the People’ concert 20 years ago today

    Milestones: R.E.M. played sole ‘Automatic For the People’ concert 20 years ago today

    • 19 November 2012
    • Milestones, Video
    • 1 comment

    R.E.M. famously didn’t tour behind its two best-selling albums — 1991’s ‘Out of Time’ and 1992’s ‘Automatic For the People’ — but the band did play a single concert in support of the latter record, a Greenpeace benefit at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Ga., exactly 20 years ago tonight.

    continue reading »

     
     
  • Milestones: Sinead O’Connor tore up pope’s photo on ‘SNL’ 20 years ago tonight

    Milestones: Sinead O’Connor tore up pope’s photo on ‘SNL’ 20 years ago tonight

    • 3 October 2012
    • Milestones, TV, Video
    • 14 comments

    Exactly 20 years ago tonight, Sinead O’Connor largely derailed what had been a promising career when she appeared on “Saturday Night Live” and, in the most infamous of her many controversial acts, tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II while urging viewers to “fight the real enemy.”

    continue reading »

     
     
  • Simple Minds’ Jim Kerr reflects on 30th anniversary of ‘New Gold Dream’

    Simple Minds’ Jim Kerr reflects on 30th anniversary of ‘New Gold Dream’

    • 13 September 2012
    • Milestones
    • 4 comments

    Thirty years ago today, Simple Minds released their fifth studio album, ‘New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84),’ considered by many to be the band’s commercial turning point after it hit No. 3 on the U.K. charts on the back of singles such as “Promised You a Miracle,” “Glittering Prize” and “Someone, Somewhere in Summertime.”

    continue reading »

     
     
  • Milestones: US Festival debuted 30 years ago today — watch the Ramones’ full set

    Milestones: US Festival debuted 30 years ago today — watch the Ramones’ full set

    • 3 September 2012
    • Milestones, Video
    • 1 comment

    As we wait for the release of the delayed “US Generation” documentary — not to mention next week’s English Beat CD/DVD combo Live at the US Festival — it’s worth marking today’s 30th anniversary of the first of two giant multi-day US Festivals, envisioned by their organizer, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, as “Woodstock West.”

    continue reading »

     
     
  • Milestones: R.E.M.’s ‘Chronic Town’ turns 30 today — hear an hour-long 1982 concert

    Milestones: R.E.M.’s ‘Chronic Town’ turns 30 today — hear an hour-long 1982 concert

    • 24 August 2012
    • Anniversary, Digital Music, Milestones
    • 6 comments

    Today we celebrate one of the more significant milestones in the college-rock era, the 30th anniversary of the release of R.E.M.’s debut EP, ‘Chronic Town.’ the five-song record that launched the band and, in many ways, the ’80s indie scene. To commemorate this classic record we present audio of a 1982 concert.

    continue reading »

     
     
  • Milestones: Today is Joey Santiago’s and Kim Deal’s birthday; watch Pixies live in 1991

    Milestones: Today is Joey Santiago’s and Kim Deal’s birthday; watch Pixies live in 1991

    • 10 June 2012
    • Milestones, Video
    • 4 comments

    We’ve got a rare double milestone today, as not one but two members of the Pixies — bassist Kim Deal and guitarist Joey Santiago — celebrate their birthdays (she’s 51 and he’s 47). We mark the occasion with this complete 29-song ‘Trompe le Monde’-era set filmed on June 26, 1991, in London.

    continue reading »

     
     
 
1 2 3 … 10 Next →
 
FAQ: The return of Slicing Up Eyeballs
 

Search Slicing Up Eyeballs

 

Stay connected with Slicing Up Eyeballs

  • Facebook Facebook
  • Twitter Twitter
  • Google + Google +
  • RSS RSS
  • E-mail E-mail
  • YouTube YouTube
 
 
 
 
 
Tweets by @slicingeyeballs
 
 
 
  • New Releases
  • Tour Dates
  • Vintage Video
  • Mixtape
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Merch
  •  

Magazine WordPress Theme by WPZOOM

Copyright © 2021 Slicing Up Eyeballs. All Rights Reserved — in this world and all others.